Abstract

• Though the newly independent Myanmar had to deal with the tasks of reconstruction and development of the country in postwar era, it faced with instabilities in various aspects for several reasons. By taking advantages of these instabilities, some of the power holding politicians, civil servants and businessmen committed briberies and corruptions. Their misconducts caused the loss of public properties and finances seriously. In order to prevent this situation, the government extended the already formed Public Property Protection Police (PPPP) to the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI) in 1951. With the aim of informing the people about the endeavours of BSI in protecting the public properties and finances from the misuse of corrupted persons, its administration board started to publish a monthly periodical in January 1954. This paper is an attempt to disclose the endeavours of BSI in safeguarding the public properties and finances as well as part of the history of BSI that reflects the history of the country in early years of independence by studying the available issues of BSI periodicals that published in 1958.